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it soon merges with a wide transverse bar of the same hue which 

 crosses the occiput leaving the entire top of the head from occiput to 

 tip of snout Hght; a second transverse sepia bar across the neck in 

 front of the shoulders and two similar ones on the body ; all the trans- 

 verse bars with rather irregular outlines, bordered in front and behind 

 by a light area, the interspace between these areas punctate with 

 light sepia markings, and slightly exceeding in extent a single sepia 

 bar with its light bordering areas; tail with five dark bars similar to 

 those on the body, interrupted beneath; lower surfaces of body 

 uniform pale drab, with a faint suggestion on the throat of the con- 

 tinuation of the two anterior sepia bars; labials without any color 

 pattern, but with a heavy powdering of minute sepia dots; limbs 

 with pale sepia markings above; a short longitudinal sepia line be- 

 tween the eyes. 



" Paratypes. — A lizard from southwestern Haiti, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 No. 60617, collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott, is quite similar to the type 

 in scalation; the dorsals are slightly smaller, however, about 16 to the 

 standard distance, and on the anterior part of the body they are 

 perhaps less imbricate. The dark crossbars, while identical in number 

 and position, are much wider and heavier in the paratype, and their 

 outlines are very regular. They extend a little further down the 

 sides toward the ventral region in the paratype, and likewise are far 

 more obvious on the throat, the occipital band completely crossing 

 the throat, and the band following it having but a narrow interruption 

 on the middle line. The dark lines on the canthus and between the 

 eyes are also accentuated and broadened in this individual. The 

 labials have scarcely any concentration of pigment on them, and the 

 markings on the upper surfaces of the hmbs are very inconspicuous. 

 The much mutilated individual collected by Dr. G. M. Allen in 

 Thomazeau (now Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 13481) is clearly of this 

 species also. 



"Relationships. — When the lizard now named as a paratype of 

 stejnegeri, 60617, was first examined, both Dr. Barbour and I considered 

 it the same as the Cuban Sphaerodactyius torrei and I called it so in 

 the report on the Abbott collection. Closer study proved them to 

 be quite distinct, however. The pattern of torrei, at first glance so 

 simUar to the Hispaniolan form, upon analysis proves to be different. 

 For example, there are three, or traces of three, wide dark-edged 

 bars on the body of females of torrei, separated by a narrow, uniformly 

 light area. In stejnegeri, we find two uniformly dark and relatively 

 narrow bars, having light borders and separated by relatively wide 

 interspaces which are spotted with pale brown dots and markings. 

 The head pattern is equally definite in the two species, — torrei has a 

 definite white band preceding the dark occipital bar, with nearly the 

 entire region in front of this dark, while in stejnegeri, the whole head 



